What to Read After Kwaidan
Readers who loved Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Kwaidan is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Kwaidan
Rashomon and Other Stories
Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Japanese Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
Dark Water
Myths & legends of Japan
Seven Japanese tales
Yokai Attack!
The Summer Of Ubume
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Kokoro
Black Rain
Ring (Ring Trilogy)
The Setting Sun
Ghost Stories of Henry James
Patriotism
Kappa
Bushidō
Snakes and Earrings
Ghost and horror stories of Ambrose Bierce [24 stories]
Hardboiled and Hard Luck
Embracing Defeat
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Count Magnus and other ghost stories